Walsh, Langton Prendergast.

Under the Flag, and Somali Coast Stories.

London, Andrew Melrose, Ltd., no year (c.1910). 16 cm x 23.5 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 384 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original salmon cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and fading. Interior is bright and clean.

Includes, for example, the following: The Mutiny – Indian Civl Servants / General Ulysses Grant, Ex-President U.S.A. / A Meeting with Sir Richard Burton / I Meet General Gordon / The Campaign of 1882 / Ismailia / London – India Office and War Office / Administration of the Somali Coast, 1883-1885 / Punitive Expedition Against the Jibril Abuker Clans, 1888 / The James Expedition, 1884 / Combatting French Influence at Zeila / I Meet the Rt Hon Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, and in 1892 Leave Zeila / My Unpopularity with the French and with the Slave-Traders / The etc.

Life and times account of an Indian-born Anglo-Irish soldier.

• Keywords: Africa · Africa – Rare · Africa, British East · African History · African Military History · Africana Collection of Rare Books · Asia – Rare · Asian History – Rare · British · British Army · British Colonial History · British East Africa · British Empire · British Imperial · Imperialism · India · Scramble for Africa · Somalia · Somaliland · Travel Africa – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120199AB

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